Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter. In a season that began with unqualified disasters, this is the first qualified success. A 1958 play written prior to The Caretaker and The Homecoming, Party lacks the dramatic sophistication of tone, tempo and themes of the two later plays. Yet the telltale stigmata are all here-dread, panic, menace, mocking comic absurdity, the evasive unwillingness of people to level with each other. Except for Edward Flanders, the American cast is blunt and plodding when it should be sardonic, cutting and athletic, but Pinter provides prickly excitement and a tantalizing quota of questions without answers...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser-a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who puts success before virtue...
...Little Success...
Following the Eliot kickoff, the Quincy offense had little success. For three plays the gridders were pushed backward toward their own goal, and on the fourth down they were forced to punt ou of their own end zone. The Elephants put on a heavy rush, blocked the punt, and Bob Beaman fell on the ball for Eliot's second score...
...last twenty years has had nothing but praise for it." He pointed out that all council hearings become public records and that a council member is not permitted to take part in the meeting considering his application. Farber quoted President Johnson who called the grant system "a billion dollar success story...